"For me there has been a pathetic, and, I think, purifying interest in looking into the soul of this man and seeing it corrode beneath the touch of a powerful temptation until at the last, when it seems to be spent, it rises again in strength and shows that the human heart has no depths in which it is lost."—Preface of the Author.
The Shadow of a Crime.
By HALL CAINE.
Bound uniform with the above. Price, 25 Cents.
"The central incident of this novel is that most extraordinary of all punishments known to English criminal law, the peine forte et dure. The story is not, however, in any sense historical. A sketchy background of stirring history is introduced solely in order to heighten the personal danger of a brave man. The interest is domestic, and, perhaps, in some degree psychological. Around a pathetic piece of old jurisprudence I have gathered a mass of Cumbrian folk-lore and folk-talk with which I have been familiar from earliest youth."—Hall Caine.
Besides the foregoing, the publishers beg to announce that they have now ready two late works by the same author, in all probability the most remarkable that he has thus far given to the world.
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THE DEEMSTER. A Romance of the Isle of Man. |
THE BONDMAN. A New Saga. |
Bound in the uniform handsomely pictured covers of the series.
Price, 25 Cents.